She feels perpetually drowsy, faint and forgetful. Nocturnal visitors enter her bedroom unannounced and strange sounds are heard among the wintry wilderness. Rather than feel better about her distress, however, Hallie is thrust into a series of fearful encounters.

The lodge is peopled with psychologists and fellow patients. When an orphaned heiress suffers a difficult breakup with an older man, she checks herself into a remote group therapy lodge near a mountainous ski resort. Can the tender heart of a woman soothe the blackened soul of a fiend, or will Adrienne succumb to temptation and willingly join the satanic rituals? Read more “Louisa Bronte – Lord Satan (1972)” Updated: March 27, 2023Ĭategories: Reviews Tags: Gothic Romance, Janet Louise Roberts, Out-of-Print, Satanic Gothic Dennis Fowler – The Ladies of Holderness (1976) It’s that classic situation of trying to domesticate your husband’s embarrassingly diabolical behavior-only in this case, he literally is a demon. “Unwittingly” is a bit of an understatement, she was drugged and unconscious at the time.Īdrienne does love Vincent, though, so she’s in a terrible pickle. But Adrienne finds all that out later, after marrying her cousin unwittingly in a demonic ceremony. Also he performs black masses in the cellar and is on friendly terms with Lucifer. Vincent is known as “Lord Satan” among the locals because of his ferocious temper and cruelty. Thus spoken is Adrienne’s deliciously Freudian description of Castle Caudill, home to her cousin Lord Vincent Stanton. “Oh-it is so huge-so very big,” she whispered, aghast.

Lord Satan by Janet Louise Roberts